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Delusional? This shit happens in MMA all the time. Did you see Wonderboy’s comments yesterday claiming that Usman won’t be able to fight Edwards, and the UFC is considering Masvidal as a replacement? We’ll see if that shit actually happens, but Masvidal is #11 right now, which is right about where Goodrige was in the summer of 2003. Masvidal isn’t a legit title challenger, but he’s a legit opponent. At the time Goodridge fought Fedor, Goodridge was
4-0-1 in his last 5, and 7-1-1 in his previous 8 fights with the lone loss being to Nog. It was lower level comp he was beating though, but Goodridge was certainly legit.
The reason for fighting Nagata was simple: Fedor was offered more money. PRIDE wanted Fedor to fight NYE, but Inoki offered Fedor a bigger fight purse to fight Nagata. We have MMA fighters trying to fight fucking YouTubers and Disney channel stars and whatever dumb shit for bigger fight purses right now—the only reason Silva or Woodley didn’t do it when they were champs is because they couldn’t. But Fedor had more freedom in his contract than UFC fighters do now. So if he got a better offer, or if PRIDE wasn’t going to book him for a few months, he could go fight in RINGS, or Inoki-Bom-Ba-Ye, or whatever.
Ngannou is UFC HW champ, and he’s been trying to get out of his UFC contract for ages so he can do something for a bigger purse.
It adds nothing to Fedor’s legacy to beat Nagata obviously, but it doesn’t detract from it either imo. It’s a non-factor.
Goddamn
Masvidal isnt 17-13 and off a win over a debuting. fighter.
His last 3 fights were against the 2 top guys
And wtf are you doing comparing retired mma fighters boxing to the top HW in the world fighting a guy with no wns??? Yea its a good thing that UFC doesnt let their champs fight winless fighters dude.
Wow...thats some hero worship dude.
7 non title fights after winning it